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November 23, 2011

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land." ~Jon Stewart

Frequently when we do a holiday post, it is rather critical of the tradition and purpose, usually exposing the hidden history of the holiday, and how its been manipulated and commercialized over its evolution. Despite the fact that the history of Thanksgiving, as we know it, is not all we were taught it was, the purpose of this article is not to discredit the holiday or its propagandized history. Rather, we genuinely want to thank our readers and wish them the happiest of Thanksgivings.

"But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance Essay